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DISABILITY RIGHTS
Demontray Hunter v. Kimberly Boswell, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health

2:16-cv-00798 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

Filed Date: Sept. 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

This is a case challenged the failure of the state of Alabama to provide court-ordered inpatient mental evaluations that are used to determine competency to stand trial, and to provide competency restoration treatment to persons committed to its custody in a timely manner. In their complaint, Plaintiffs alleged that pretrial detainees remained incarcerated in a county jail for up to eight months after a court order committing them to the Department for treatment or evaluation, in jails that are…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-00716 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 11, 2025

Case Ongoing

On March 11, 2025, Perkins Coie LLP, an international law firm based out of Seattle, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The Plaintiff named the United States of America, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of Management and Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, …
SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Otto v. City of Boca Raton, Florida

9:18-cv-80771 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: June 13, 2018

Case Ongoing

Two licensed marriage and family therapists brought this lawsuit individually and on behalf of their patients against the City of Boca Raton and the County of Palm Beach, Florida in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on June 13, 2018. The plaintiffs challenged City Ordinance 5407 and Palm Beach County Ordinance 2017-046 (“the ordinances”), both of which prohibited conversion therapy on minors, on federal constitutional grounds and state constitutional and statutory gro…
DISABILITY RIGHTS
Harris v. Georgia Department of Corrections

5:18-cv-00365 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Oct. 3, 2018

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the alleged denial of effective communication for deaf and hard of hearing individuals incarcerated in Georgia. On October 3, 2018, incarcerated individuals who were deaf and hard of hearing filed a collective class action lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, National Association of the Deaf, and a private law firm, claimed that defendants denied them effecti…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.S. v. State of California

2:18-cv-00490 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: March 6, 2018

Closed Date: April 6, 2021

This case challenged California's "sanctuary city" state laws. The United States federal government filed this suit on March 6, 2018 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The case was assigned to Judge John A. Mendez and Magistrate Kendall J. Newman. This lawsuit comes after a series of lawsuits filed by California jurisdictions challenging the federal government's sanctuary city policies, which deny federal funding to jurisdictions that impede the federal governmen…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
United States v. State of Idaho

1:22-cv-00329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: Aug. 2, 2022

Closed Date: March 5, 2025

On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho to protect what it alleged were rights of patients to access emergency abortion care guaranteed by federal law. The suit challenged Idaho Code § 18-622, which was set to go into effect on Aug. 25 and to impose a near-total ban on abortion. The complaint sought a declaratory judgment that § 18-622 conflicted with, and was preempted by, the federal Emergency Medical Treatment …
POLICING
U.S. v. Territory of the Virgin Islands

3:08-cv-00158 | District Court of the Virgin Islands

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2008

Case Ongoing

In March 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division initiated an investigation of the U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) pursuant to 42 USC § 14141. On October 5, 2005, the DOJ issued a technical assistance letter to VIPD, making recommendations regarding specific changes to the department's policies regarding use of force, vehicle pursuits, holding cells, misconduct investigations, discipline, supervisory oversight, and training. On December 23, 2008, the DOJ …
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Rivera Madera v. Detzner

1:18-cv-00152 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: Aug. 16, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 1, 2021

This case centers around allegations that the Secretary of State of Florida failed to uphold the requirements of Section 4(e) of the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.), which prohibits conditioning the right to vote on a person's ability to understand English if they were educated in a school where the predominant language was not English, such as in Puerto Rico. On August 16, 2018, ahead of the 2018 midterm elections in November, the plaintiffs—which included voting rights organizatio…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Common Cause/New York v. Brehm

1:17-cv-06770 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Sept. 6, 2017

Closed Date: Jan. 13, 2020

This is a case about a New York state law that removed inactive, but still registered, voters from voter lists at polling stations when those voters changed residences. On September 6, 2017, Common Cause/New York filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against officials of the New York State Board of Elections alleging that their practice of labeling voters as inactive based on a change of residence and their removal of those voters from poll books at voting sites violated Sectio…